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EconomicsHow Race Politics Burns Out
by Joel Kotkin 08/14/2020
No future awaits those who rage against family, work, and community. Where there is no bread, there is no Law. Where there is no Law, there is no bread. »
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Slower Municipality Growth in China: 2010-2019
by Wendell Cox 08/07/2020
China, which many see as the exemplar of rapid urban growth, is accelerating its own shift towards greater dispersion. During the 2000s, the largest municipalities (formerly called prefectures) of China grew very quickly. Much of this was a result of an increasing “floating population,” people who moved to the cities from rural areas for employment, especially in factories producing goods for export and in construction. Between 2000 and 2010, according to the China Statistical Yearbook: 2019, the floating read more » »
California's Woke Hypocrisy
by Joel Kotkin 07/30/2020
No state wears its multicultural veneer more ostentatiously than California. The Golden State’s leaders believe that they lead a progressive paradise, ushering in what theorists Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca call “a new progressive era.” Others see California as deserving of nationhood; it reflects, as a New York Times columnist put it, “the shared values of our increasingly tolerant and pluralistic society.” read more » »
Restart, Reset, Retool, Refill
by Ninigret Partners and Interface Studio 07/29/2020
Considerations for downtowns, commercial corridors, and main streets We are at the end of the beginning. There are going to be closures, vacancies, and job losses across communities. How long and how deep will be a function of how well the next three-to-six months are managed read more » »
High Speed Rail: Yesterday's Tech Tomorrow
by Randal OToole 07/28/2020
One of the candidates for president in this November’s election is known by the nickname, “Amtrak Joe.” The Democratic-controlled House wants to triple federal funding for intercity passenger trains. read more » »
Joel Kotkin Q&A on 'The Coming of Neo-Feudalism'
by Carl M. Cannon 07/26/2020
Let’s start at the beginning, Joel. In talking about your new book, “The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class,” do you literally fear that liberal capitalism is losing out to economic “feudalism”? And please put that word feudalism in a modern context for our readers. read more » »
House Hunting with Temple Grandin
by John Sanphillippo 07/24/2020
Many of you will be familiar with Temple Grandin. She’s the autistic woman who designs slaughterhouses from the cattle’s perspective. By organizing the process in a way that’s calming to the animals it improves efficiency. Her primary contribution is the recognition that animals are highly sensitive to small symbolic details: a shadow, a dangling chain, a hose left on the ground, a flapping flag. read more » »
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Elon Musk's Tesla Rocket
by Sami J. Karam 07/22/2020
Wow, Elon Musk! That was the cathartic cheer and cry of relief in millions of American homes on May 30, after two months of forced confinement, when the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon Capsule lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying two American astronauts bound for the International Space Station. It was the first ever manned SpaceX mission read more » »
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Welcome to Marquette Park
by Pete Saunders 07/20/2020
So last month I saw an article in the New York Times about the resurfacing of a video documenting a racist attack on black children in Rosedale, Queens in New York City in 1975. A group of black kids from a nearby neighborhood decided to go on a "bike hike" through surrounding neighborhoods. Little did they know they would stumble on a protest against black movement into the area. read more » »
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Combined Statistical Areas: Ready for the Dispersion Demand
by Wendell Cox 07/16/2020
The years to come seem likely to see America’s historic population dispersion continue or accelerate, as pandemic and lockdown worries have severely reduced the attractiveness of dense urban cores (especially in the highest density areas, such as New York City). As a result, the sparsely populated outer areas of combined statistical areas (CSAs), the largest category of local labor market defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), could be the destination of many former urban core households. read more » »
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